Stephen Goodman

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Born in New Orleans in 1956, later in Kansas City, Missouri and Ridgewood, NJ, and then Los Angeles, then London UK, Stephen P. Goodman was cartooning by age three, imitating James Brown screams and declared to have “perfect pitch” by age five, absorbed AM radio via a transistor radio under his pillow at night by age seven, picked up a guitar at twelve, and spent most of his teen years looking for a place to sneak a cigarette.

Stephen has been recording music or experiments since 1980, though some recordings from 1973 have recently been uncovered. Exposed to classical music and sporadic piano lessons from age 6 to 26, he began playing by ear early on, and having learned most of his chops from non-traditional sources, hopes to bring a new viewpoint to the music scene wherever he is. Like many of his age group Stephen was sucked into the software business in the early eighties, and out to LA where he met many like-minded creative people, migrating from software support to network design-support and ultimately MIS Director at Jobete Music Co from 1997-2000.

In 1996 he invented a software-encapsulated loop player for short wav files on the PC to provide “an ambient backdrop for your desktop.” Since its creation, the Loop Of The Week has been posted online at EarthLight Studios on a (mostly) weekly basis, and is still unduplicated today. Stephen assisted lots of musicians in putting their music online in the advent of the Internet, and in the latter 1990s began playing ambient-psychedelic material in the proto-rave scene there.

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  • SPGoodman

    Free Download: All 15 (Fifteen!) tracks from "Club Meditation".

    20 Apr 2009 Reply
  • SPGoodman

    A new collection of pieces from online performances entitled "No Matter Where You Go" is being assembled under my albums. The pieces are long and free for downloading.

    8 Jan 2009 Reply